In one of the latest #HHHLive shows (btw. there will be NO SHOW tomorrow), we were discussing HivePower, delegations, skin in the game, and some of the "excuses" why HIVE is good and how it could be better... Of course, we humans are experts at finding excuses for our mistakes and flaws, and the same happens in our favorite social media blockchain network... The HIVE price goes down because HBD interests are huge, or it goes down because HIVE whales are selling, or it goes down as DHF resources are spent on a large scale, or... You get the story... It's always someone or something else to blame, and never ourselves... We are doing everything great...
Running the #HHHLive show, having discussions with others, curating for @ourpick, and replying to many comments, I became aware of one big thing on HIVE... The need of EDUCATION newcomers on HIVE, but also those who are afraid to dive deeper, to go out of their routine... This is not a "HIVE tutorial," and it is definitely not financial advice, it is more my personal view on things on HIVE that could help someone...
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Let me be clear at the beginning: I am aware that we have good and bad apples here on HIVE, but we also have the third group, which is a mix of both... The point of this post is to find good apples from that group and educate them about HIVE... Not by giving some rules (as there are no rules on HIVE), but more guidelines... Showing by example is, most of the time, the best way to teach others...
Many people don't understand how HIVE POWER is important and crucial to everyone... Not just for the platform itself, or token price, but especially for every content creator here! As it is very often compared to "token staking," it is considered a PASSIVE income source, but it is a lot more than that! It is more "ACTIVE" than the content creation itself!!!
When you create content on HIVE, you are (or should) adding value to the platform and to your readers... You earn author rewards by doing that from the upvotes that you are getting from your followers, readers, and people who like what you are doing... As you are getting 50% of the rewards (as an author), the biggest beneficiary of your content is YOU...
Now, when you accumulate HIVEPOWER and you are actively curating the content of people that you are following and liking, you are adding direct (monetary) value to their posts too... You are APPRECIATING their work... By upvoting 10–15 posts per day, you are ACTIVELY adding value to 15 Hivians, and not just to yourself!!! Of course, you are earning curation rewards too, but is there a better way of ACTIVE participating than to appreciate others for their work?
I know that many of you have realized that a lot of people are "preparing" for the bull market pump and powering down their HIVE... Yes, that is happening, but even in the bear, many people were doing that because they didn't understand the purpose of HIVE POWER, or they were just "extracting value" from HIVE... Speaking of extracting, it is not a problem to take some earnings from the table, but looking at HIVE as an ATM is a very bad approach... I have zero tolerance for people who are doing it...
Hive is a two-way street where you can create content and add value to others by doing that, but you SHOULD also be on the "other side" and upvote and appreciate other authors' work... To do that, you need HivePower... Now comes the next excuse... *"I have only X amount of HP, and others have thousands." Imagine this, all of us had the same amount of HP as you at a certain time! But we continued building it, and you should be able to do the same...
It's not a question of QUANTITY; it is a question of appreciating and respecting other authors!
In conclusion, HIVE POWER is a very ACTIVE source of income and a great tool for appreciating others on this platform... Without it, HIVE would be just another social media network for the growing EGOs of the loudest people in the crowd...
Thank you for your time.
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